Gaming company Lil Snack has tapped Scopely and Supercell alum Bill Kang as its new chief operating officer. Since launching three years ago, Lil Snack now operates more than 20 games daily on platforms including Netflix and has seen engagement grow 500% year over year, surpassing hundreds of millions of streams. Kang joins the company
Joel Courtney (“Super 8,” “The Kissing Booth” franchise) will star in and produce “Echo,” a psychological thriller that marks the directorial debut of popular TikTok creator Zac Stracener. Stracener, who has 1.3 million followers on the short video platform, also wrote the independent film, which is described as “a character-driven thriller that delves into the
Vanessa Marano, a prolific actress known for her starring and guest roles in numerous notable television series throughout the 2000s, will produce and star in the wedding party horror comedy “Ring Leader.” Marano is producing the film through his American production company Calabrian Rhode, behind the 2022 Netflix original romantic comedy “The Royal Treatment,” which
For years, Synthesia’s pitch was to use AI to help companies create interactive training videos, in minutes, for a fraction of the cost typically associated with developing corporate educational materials. The startup’s newest product is making a different bet: that the real moat of enterprise AI is not just generating content, but proving that it
Scatena & Rosner Films has acquired North American, Australian and New Zealand distribution rights to the independent LGBTQ comedy-drama “Actual Nobodies,” written and directed by Alex Wyse. S&R picked up the film at this year’s Cannes market. Germany’s Media Luna New Films has secured the rights for the rest of the territories. A US launch
Elsa Zylberstein, one of France’s most popular actresses, will make her directorial debut with “My Best Life.” The film is a comedy-drama inspired by “Mytho du soir,” the viral sketch series she posted on social media while locked down during the pandemic. Instead of making a direct adaptation of “Mytho du soir” – in which